FPPAnalytics
Ever wished you could tell what method of navigation your visitors use the most on your panorama? What's the most visited panorama of your multi-node tour? Which hotspots did the visitor click? How many visitors switch to fullscreen? Well now you can!
With FPPAnalytics it's easy to discover what your visitors are doing inside your tours. Until now we could only see how many visitors we had but not their behaviour. FPPAnalytics is a Flash Panorama Player plugin that enables the Google Analytics tracking service to analyse the behavior of our visitors in our tours. It tracks the filename of your panorama the moment it's loaded and it appends a base tour name so you can group tour clicks easily. You also can track clicks in your hotspots, menu buttons etc.
Fully customizable from your main XML. Contributed by user PauloGoGo.
Developers notes:
"I developed this plugin because I nedded this kind of functionality for my own projects. This project won't stop being developed (an update is already in test phase to implement Goal tracking)."
Here's the Google Analytics page for Demo Page:
Demo:
2 node tour with trackable hotspot DEMO
Price: 10€
Don't forget to provide your email address to complete the transaction.
Once purchased, I will email you the Plugin and example files -- usually within 24-48 hours!
All minor version upgrades are free (upgrade from version 1.2 up to 1.9 are free)
(If you made the payment but didn't receive the plugin please contact me). Feel free to ask questions in the forum for FPPAnalytics!
How to use it:
- first you need a Google Analytics account (if you're new to this service follow their tutorials, they're really good)
- after setting up your Google Analytics account you'll get a Web Property ID (something like UA-######-#)
- now setup FPPAnalytics like any other plugin in FPP (replace the UA-######-# with your own Web Property ID):
<parameters>
layer_20 = hotspots.swf
layer_30 = fppanalytics.swf
panoName = images/panoramaFile
</parameters>
<fppanalytics>
webid = UA-######-#
debug = false
baseName = FPP Analytics Demo
folderMask = images/
</fppanalytics>
<hotspots>
<global>
<box id="HotSpot_Click" url="hotspot.png" linked="images/panoramaFile"
onClick="external.fppanalytics.trackHS=This hotspot was clicked;" />
</global>
</hotspots>
</panorama>
- and you're good to go.
To verify if the plugin is working you should install the Flash Tracer Firefox Add-On and take a look at the trace statements as the analytics service can take up to 24H to reflect your clicks.
Parameters (if you don't include a parameter it will revert to the default value):
webid - your Web Property ID provided by Google. If you don't add this parameter no tracking will be done.
debug - if set to true FPPAnalytics won't send the information to Google but will give you an alert box with what it would track (usefull if you don't have the FlashTracer Firefox AddOn, Default is FALSE)
baseName - it' the name of the actual tour, the name you wish to goup all the panoramas under. Default is FPPTour.
folderMask - If your panoramas are inside a folder but you don't wish to have it in the name that gets tracked. Default is NULL or no masking will be done.
External call:
external.fppanalytics.trackHS=String to identify this click
Use this method to call the FPPAnalytics functionality from any kind of hotspots, The string will be added to the end of the current panorama loaded so we know what was the active file when the user clicked the hotspot.
Price: 10€
Don't forget to provide your email address to complete the transaction.
Once purchased, I will email you the Plugin and example files -- usually within 24-48 hours!
All minor version upgrades are free (upgrade from version 1.2 up to 1.9 are free)
(If you made the payment but didn't receive the plugin please contact me). Feel free to ask questions in the forum for FPPAnalytics!
Great plugin Paulo!
This will be extremely useful...
Cheers,
Patrick
what's the point?
what's the point of displaying the statistics inside GoogleAnalytics, and sell your visitors (and your soul) to Google for free?
re: what's the point? (FPPAnalytics)
Hey Yuv:
My main response to yours is "Huh?"
The audience for this plugin is probably folks who already use Google's free Analytics service to track usage of their particular Web site. No soul-selling there. I fail, too, to see how using Analytics is selling visitors' souls. No personal information is sent to anyone.
Re: what's the point?
Hi Yuv,
if you don't like it, don't use it
I personalty use Google Analytics service since it was a beta invite only program, I give it to all my clients, and they all prefer it over the other statistics services I also offer.
And besides, what is Google going to gain with the information they gather? And what do we gain with it? We get to know what's the average screen resolution, OS, browser, flash version, time on each page, where they click, what links they use the most, where they're from, connection speed, etc, etc
and this is only the direct data they give you, then you can make your own conclusions about your visitors...
And this is great, not to sell our visitors souls, but to sell our work to our clients, try to pitch a job proposal with and without this kind of information to a large firm
Like I said, if you don't like it, fine, don't use it, but you should close your browser immediately because a huge amount of sites use this free service.
sorry for the long post, just venting